Alban Berg: Lyric Suite, first version with voice on a poem by Charles Baudelaire

Directed by Michel Swierczewski

Duration: 74.16

Filmed
at the 11th ProQuartet Musical Encounters, this concert introduces us
to Webern's 3 unpublished Bagatelles MS174, a work at the limit of
silence, and the version with voice of Berg's Lyric Suite, discovered
after the death of Helene Berg - an immense cry of love and despair when
the composer realized that his adulterous relationship with Hanna Fuchs
was doomed to failure. A masterwork of the 20th century, Schoenberg's
second string quartet marks the break with tonality, perhaps linked to
the suicide of the painter Richard Gerstl, his friend,and Mathilde
Schoenberg's lover.

This film will be introduced by a documentary filmed
in Grenoble during the Diotima's recording sessions for their CD
dedicated to the Second Viennese School. The film alternate excerpts and
interviews with the quartet members and soloists Marie-Nicole Lemieux
and Sandrine Piau. On top, some archival films show Schoenberg and
Rudolf Kolish. An essential listening key before seing the concert.